- Title
- Research Testbed Networks: Practical Tools for Service Delivery?
- Creator
- Wertlen, Ronald R, Siebörger, Ingrid, Tsietsi, Mosiuoa, Shibeshi, Zelalem S, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/429204
- Identifier
- vital:72567
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1681-4835.2012.tb00351.x
- Description
- The Telkom Centre of Excellence (CoE) at Rhodes University, housed in the Computer Science department was opened in 1997. The CoE's focus on Distributed multimedia service platforms soon showed that the technology being researched could be applied in the disadvantaged peri‐urban communities. The CoE has thus concentrated its research on building a testbed network that delivers real services to real users. In 2007, the testbed was extended to include a marginalised rural area in the Siyakhula Living Lab. The greatest factor in the sustainability of the CoE testbed network has been maintaining usefulness to all the stakeholders over the last 12 years. Industrial funding, University outreach goals and research goals could all be harmonised, while sustaining the delivery of high quality informatics services in the community. This paper presents a brief case study of the communications network testbed and how it was applied to the Development Informatics space. It analyses the roles played by stakeholders in either assisting and sustaining or obstructing the service delivery. It makes key recommendations on best practices for research networks that can also bring informatics to disadvantaged communities. It shows how testbeds for the research of new technologies can be designed so as to allow Development Informatics work to take place on such networks.
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Wertlen, R., Siebörger, I., Tsietsi, M., Shibeshi, Z. and Terzoli, A., 2012. Research Testbed Networks: Practical Tools for Service Delivery?. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 50(1), pp.1-14, The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries volume 50 number 1 1 14 2012 1681-4835
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